Joel 2: 4--9 .. URBAN
militarized Robots
"The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and
as horsemen, so shall they run.
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they
leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the
stubble,
as a strong people set in battle array.
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces
shall gather blackness.

They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like
men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways,
and they shall not break their ranks:
Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in
his path:
and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
They shall run to and fro in the CITY;
they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the
houses;
they shall enter in at the windows like a thief".

Ed: Robots are arbitrary--without reasoning, logic, common sense or a
CONSCIENCE.

Military Robots
WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - They have no fear, they never
tire, they are not upset when the soldier next to them gets blown
to pieces. Their morale doesn't suffer by having to do, again and
again, the jobs known in the military as the Three Ds - dull,
dirty and dangerous.
They are military robots and their rapidly increasing numbers and
growing sophistication may herald the end of thousands of years
of human monopoly on fighting war. "Science fiction is
moving to the battlefield. The future is upon us," as
Brookings scholar Peter Singer put it to a conference of experts
at the U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania this month.http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LM674603.htm

Killer Robots and a Revolution in
warfare http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/04/22/killer-robots-and-a-revolution-in-warfare/Israel creating
remote control border ( and robots)http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39039Centibots ProjectThe Centibots project, funded by the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is
aimed at developing new technology to support the coordinated
deployment of as many as 100 robots for missions such
as urban surveillance. A first team of mapping
robots (Pioneers with laser range finders)
surveyed an area while building and sharing a distributed map.
They were followed by a second wave of tracking robots
(Amigobots) that configured themselves to
efficiently search for an object of interest within that area,
sensed and tracked intruders, and shared information among
themselves and with a command center. The robots are autonomous
and independent of any network infrastructure, carrying and
deploying their own communication network (using SRI's
patent-pending PacketHop technology). Robots
communicate with each other to coordinate their effort. If one
robot fails, another takes over its task.http://www.ai.sri.com/centibots/

"chick " robots ...
Miniature rovers"As described in the journal Planetary
and Space Science, it would use a multitude
of smaller, less expensive sensors
to scour a planet and coordinate with the rover. Different
sensors would probe different terrain. All
would "talk" to each other and react to conditions
without waiting for instructions from scientists a solar system
away.

Many of the pieces needed to adopt this exploration
strategy already are emerging in labs and studies funded by NASA's
Institute for Advanced Concepts in Atlanta.
Take the "chick" robots
of Steven Dubowsky and Penny Boston. Dr. Boston, who directs the
cave and karst studies program at the New Mexico Institute of
Mining and Technology in Socorro, is interested in finding
evidence of life on other planets by identifying the mineral
signals that microbes leave behind.

The collaboration resulted in tennis-ball-sized
robots powered with tiny fuel cells.
The one-legged sensors would hop and roll into hard-to-reach
places, exchanging information among themselves and with a
lander. They would also be deployed in large numbers so the
mission would continue even if some microbots malfunctioned or
rolled off a cliff.....Steve Chien, who heads the artificial intelligence group
at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif."http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0112/p20s01-stss.html

Frightening video : School security robots chasing childrenhttp://www.gearlive.com/index.php/news/article/secom_school_security_robots_04181134/Robotic, non-thinking
force "Military action, not explicitly authorised by the
UN, may become increasingly controversial,"
Caution may be reinforced by increased concern with the legality
of military action, as globalisation disseminates the concept
of international law," says the study
One way of overcoming this problem would be to
"outsource" and to resort to "increased
automation, from warships to robots
The report concludes by suggesting that member states cut
manpower numbers, exploit new technology more quickly and
improve intelligence - leading to a point where EU military
planners react more rapidly to situations using many actors
including other international organisations, are selective in the
type of force they use and can provide sustainable solutions to
conflicts." http://euobserver.com/9/22555/?rk=1

IBM store of the future One of the most interesting technologies at the IBM
pavilion was the LaneHawk
by Evolution Robotics. Using a high-end camera and sophisticated image-recognition
software, the LaneHawk takes a photo of shopping cart contents
and looks up UPC codes for the products to send that information
to the POS. Its a high-tech way to cut down on one of the
most low-tech forms of loss  the accidental (or
intentional) omission of bottom-of-basket products from a sale.Ed: It's also
a good way to monitor one's purchases, since it has
image-recognition which most likely is alsofacial recognition. That way, if a customer makes
purchases with cash, the System can identify your buying habits
without the "report card" provided by either a
subdermal chip or smart card or credit card.
Just one more clever way of tracking and profiling. They
leave no way out.http://atmmarketplace.com/news_story_26719.htmReader Comment: "Is it a
coincidence that as we have moved away from cash-on-the-nail to
cheques, then plastic that more people find themselves in debt?
When we handed over cash (I still do), we could see and 'feel'
how much this was, but now it goes without a thought. This latest
development seems to be another move to divorce us from
self-reliance and personal responsibility - a kind of casual
aquaintance with money that somehow says it doesn't matter 'it'll
come from somewhere'. Dangerous "

Robotic
submarines-- Mariana Trench(Far Pacific )We were seeing billowing clouds coming up and
turning yellow. There was sulfur and rocks were flying out,
said Embley, an oceanographer with the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental
Laboratory. We realized we were the first to witness a
deep-sea volcano during an eruptive episode.
The material from the eruption is still being studied. It was
highly caustic, Embley said, damaging the camera lenses even
though the robotic submarine
was quickly backed away from the volcano.
The volcano, with a rim 1,800 feet below the sea surface, was
named Brimstone Pit by the scientists.